This past week I did a few rides to Camden as I was getting ready to
help instruct a youth cycle camp that began yesterday. The three week camp, aptly named CYCLE, is
organized by the Rails to Trails
Conservancy and Cooper’s Ferry Development Association. The
program is meant to engage Camden youth, ages 11 and 12, as bicycle users as
well as stewards of the growing trail network throughout the region. We will be biking throughout the Philadelphia
region as we use cycling as a way to get to a destination and to explore the
region. After three weeks the “graduation”
ride is an all-day, 40+ mille trip from Green Lane, PA to the Camden
waterfront. I’m super excited to be involved in this program and make sure
you check the blog as many of these
rides will go up in the coming weeks.
Along with my rides across the Ben Franklin Bridge I took a ride along
the Schuylkill trail to the Wissahickon.
This is a ride I have done before so it did not really change my totals
that much but after the prior week’s heat it was nice to be able to bike along
a familiar territory.
|
Routes
|
Miles
|
Minutes
|
Speed
|
Calories Burned
|
|
5
|
36.1
|
164
|
13.2
|
1,954
|
Again, there were very little changes in the Philadelphia neighborhood
and regional municipality composition of my rides. I biked through about 17%
more of the Wissahickon Park. Additionally
I biked through a little more of downtown Camden, bringing my total percentage
for Camden to 15.4%. Philadelphia is
still the city I have toured through the most at 21.2% or 30.4 sq. mi. Make
sure you check out the Geographic
Analysis page for all the deets!
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